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Thursday, October 28, 2004

Consumer Campaign Helps Families Eat Healthier
New York, NY - GRACE (Global Resource Action Center for the Environment) today launched a new campaign - Sustainable Table - to help educate consumers on how to shop smarter, eat healthier and enjoy the abundance of fresh, nutritious meat and produce grown by local family farmers. From the ben... Continued...

Wednesday, October 27, 2004

Rural Summit in Ames, IA in first 100 Days of Presidency
KERRY ANNOUNCES RURAL SUMMIT IN AMES, IOWA IN FIRST 100 DAYS OF HIS ADMINISTRATION 1) press release on announcement 2) Fact Sheet on Kerry-Edwards plan for Rural America 3) Fact Sheet on Bush's Wrong Choices for Rural America 4) Satellite coord... Continued...

Monday, October 25, 2004

Wetlands Restoration Plan To Put $16.2 Million Into Minnesota
Minnesota is the second state approved to receive funds from a new federal/state wetlands restoration program. Over the next few years, $16.2 million is earmarked for four areas of the state, Gov. Tim Pawlenty said Monday. The federal government will provide $15 million, with the state pitchi... Continued...

The President Won In 2000 With Rural Support, But Knows That Winning Rural Vote In 2004 Isn't A Done Deal
President Bush, whose support in rural America was vital to his winning the Electoral College in the 2000 election, has stressed his support for the 2002 farm bill and his tax cuts more than his stands on specific issues in the 2004 campaign. Rural Republican and Democratic leaders both acknowled... Continued...

Thursday, October 14, 2004

Grain Elevators Lie In Change's Way
GLENCOE, MINN. -- Eleven-year-old Nick Pagel has been hanging around the family grain elevator after school these days, watching the trucks and wagons unload their soybeans, getting to know the local farmers and generally absorbing how dad and grandpa handle things. It gets his new bike dusty,... Continued...

Wednesday, October 13, 2004

Down on the Farm
FARM POLICY usually peaks as an issue in the presidential campaign a year before the election, in the run-up to the Iowa caucuses. But with Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Ohio among the most fiercely contested of the battleground states, this year could be an exception. John Kerry has been stump... Continued...

Tuesday, October 12, 2004

Biotech Grass 'Gene Flow' Underscores Growing Concern
California rice farmers are worried Japanese customers will boycott their products if genetically engineered rice is allowed into the state. And in Hawaii, organic papaya farmers are outraged because traces of genetically engineered papaya are showing up in their harvest. Biologists call it "g... Continued...

One Word of Advice: Now It's Corn
When Dow Chemical Co. and agriculture giant Cargill Inc. began a major push two years ago to market a plastic made from corn instead of oil, they thought they were tapping into consumers' growing worries about the environment. As it turns out, makers of the alternative plastic may get their bi... Continued...

Friday, October 8, 2004

Mexico To Eliminate Toxic Chemical Lindane
(Montreal)—Representatives of the government of Mexico announced the country's intention to develop and implement a program leading to the phase out of all uses of lindane, a toxic chemical used mainly as a pesticide and treatment for head lice and scabies, at an international meeting of the Commiss... Continued...

Tuesday, October 5, 2004

State Sugar Beet Growers Sour On Proposed Trade Pact
Colorado sugar beet growers see nothing sweet in a foreign-trade agreement that they say could decimate their industry. The proposed Central American Free Trade Agreement, known by its acronym CAFTA, would give foreign producers duty-free access to U.S. markets and also lift tariffs on U.S. expo... Continued...

Supporters of Equity in USDA Programs: Make Farm Service Agency County Committees Fair or Eliminate Them
A diverse group of organizations representing minority and other family farmers called upon USDA to step up efforts to fully implement reforms to the Farm Service Agency County Committee system. The groups have long championed these reforms, passed with bipartisan support in the 2002 Farm Bill. T... Continued...

Plenty To Beef About In The First Debate About Future Of Farming
Most observers accept the assertion that Wales is primarily a livestock-producing land, so the result of the first Science and Society debate organised by the Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research last Wednesday was something of a surprise. An audience of farmers, scientists and stude... Continued...

Country of Origin Labeling Good Way To Fight Mad Cow
In August, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) held a listening session in Billings on the proposed mandatory livestock identification program. Since mad cow disease, otherwise knows as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), is a disease that could only have entered this countr... Continued...

Monday, October 4, 2004

Wheat Growers Grow Corn, Soybeans But Name's The Same
For the past two decades, members of the South Dakota Wheat Growers actually have grown more corn and soybeans than wheat. But don't look for the cooperative to change its name. "Changing the name has been discussed," said Roger Krueger, the Wheat Growers' director of grain marketing, "and it ... Continued...